A Step Closer to Love

Arabella rolled in bed as she could not take her mind off what Kieran had said. She could hear it so clearly that it was like her mind was replaying the scene over and over again.

‘I am quite interested in you so I don’t think I can stay out of your business’

“Interested in me? What does that mean?” she muttered to herself as she sat up straight in bed. Maybe her mind was not working because she was lying down.

“Maybe I should have asked him what he meant and not allowed him to walk away like he had not just dropped a bomb on me”

“What did he mean?” she mumbled to herself again.

Her eyes darted to the alarm clock by her bedside. She had only four more hours before she had to be up and out so she could go to work.

She wondered why her mind did not play this truck on her while it was day. It has to wait till night and then keep her awake all night.

She knew that she would be so exhausted at work and she would probably make a bad impression in the face of Aurora again. She sighed as she fell back into bed and pulled the covers over her eyes.

She shut her eyes and waited for sleep to overwhelm her. She needed at least two hours of sleep to at least be a little productive in the morning. By the time her eyes flew open, she had only thirty minutes to make it to work.

“Shit” she screamed as she flew out of bed and clasped her hand across her mouth in embarrassment. She was the only one in the room so she did not know why she was feeling so embarrassed.

“How did this happen?” she cried out as she tried to do more than one thing at the same time. “What a way to start the week” she continued in a groan.

She heard a knock on her door as she was sipping up her dress.

“Who is it? ” she called jumping up and down so the zipper just works.

“It’s Everly”

“Oh thank goodness” Arabella said walking to the door. She puked the door open and turned to her. “Please help me with my zipper,” she said.

Everly helped her and she turned to face her. “Thank you” she murmured and rushed back to pack up her stuff into her purse.

She had successfully had a quick shower and gotten dressed within ten minutes she had twenty minutes to magically appear at the office so she did not get late.

“What happened?” Everly asked helping her pick things and throw them into her bag.

“I woke up late because I could not sleep early enough and I am stressed out as it is, I did not know that the time has gone so much” she said all in a breath and then took a deep breath.

“I had a rough morning or else I would have noticed you hadn’t gotten out of bed yet” Everly said.

“It’s all right,” Arabella said running out the door.

“Be careful” she screamed after the girl.

“I can’t believe that guy, it’s his fault that I am going so late to work and yet he could not even check on me” she murmured as she climbed down the stairs.

She was out of the house with the speed of light and she saw Kieran standing there with his hands up as he frowned at his watch. He leaned on his car and looked up and their eyes locked.

“I thought you were not going to make it to work today” he said opening his door and entering inside.

She stood there wondering what he was doing there. He always left the house earlier so why was he still around at this time? Was he waiting for her?

“Aren’t you going to work?” he asked rolling down his window.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

She caught herself from staring and gaping at him and ran down the final stairs to overcome. She ran and sat in the front passenger seat of the car.

“I thought you had left already,” she said as she struggled to put on her seatbelt.

“I was waiting for you,” he said silently.

‘He was waiting for me?’ she asked herself and then turned to him. “Why?” she asked him as she was able to finally put in the belt.

“I usually drive you to work,” he said as he drove out of the compound to the street. He seemed so chill it was kind of scary.

“I told you yesterday that I would go on my own from today” she murmured.

“Do you want to get down?” he murmured silently as he slowed down.

“No please keep driving, thank you so much,” she said gesturing for him to continue. He increased his speed and drove onto the express.

“Why are you so late?” he asked.

“Can we not talk about that?” she asked hoping that they don’t talk about anything at all.

“Okay” he said facing the road with a smirk.

“Aren’t you going to be late too?”

“I am the boss” he said and she nodded.

“I am not the boss and I think I might get a salary cut this month,” she said with a whimper. She bowed her head and hit herself gently in the head with annoyance.

“Get a grip on yourself” she murmured. She looked up and hoped for something to magically happen so they could get to their destination before it was too late.

By the time Kieran was driving into the underground parking lot of the office she was already fifteen minutes late. How could she let this happen to her? Why did she spend all night worrying about some words from him?

She was going to confront him about it tonight before she went to bed so she wouldn’t end up repeating the same thing again.

“Thank you” she screamed as the car parked and she flew out of the car and ran up to the elevator. She prayed for the elevator to come quicker than it would.

“Hold the door” Kieran shouted to her as he approached the door.

“Sorry” she screamed at him as the door closed.

“What’s wrong with her?”